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I've only ever heard the term 'echo-chamber' as a pejorative against people who hold anti-establishment views, ie 'Hillary lost because middle America is stuck in right wing / alt-…

Hate speech is a phony political category. Hate Christians and white people? Well that's just fine. Have a Twitter account that retweets verified people saying 'kill all whites'? T…

I don't see why he can't just terraform Mars and built his own Internet and Twitter there.

Maybe Americans figured out it's not that much fun to post when you have to consider that your mom, your aunt, your employer, your future employers, law enforcement, the TSA, the N…

Understanding the arc of life. Life in your 20s can be more about horsing around with your friends, but after 40 its more about spending time with your family (your friends become …

Most of the US is low-density and built for cars, so not a lot of walking happening. Also some people in the city will take a Bird or Lyft scooter automating out walking

I keep thinking along these lines. Like Friday night run and beer. You do a 5k run and then you all get a beer and you can bond over the run.

Someone once made the same point about fitness, you used to have to roll down your windows manually, but now its automatic. More and more muscle functions being eliminated by autom…

That's a bit of a reduction. More like 'Any neighborhood in a world class city with a reputation ...' Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Kansas City could develop cool areas, but probably won…

People also hate sidewalks [1], bike lanes, scooters, gentrification http://www.startribune.com/sidewalks-get-some-love-in-edina/...

I've heard that the UK does this as well, still get insurance from work because the free one is terrible.

One infers their systems are highly integrated (tax/crime/social/banking/education/gps all unified)

The latest Trace Mayer podcast is worth a listen: "Wall Street veteran Caitlin Long discusses the sixth network effect of financialization with Wall Street and institutional invest…

I expect the money will come from Wall Street once adequate custodial / regulatory framework is in place.

I wonder if the case would have played out differently if Silk Road hadn't coincided with the rise of synthetic drugs.

Not sure if it causes cancer or not, but this is like a security hole in the scientific process (ie mostly only the company that produces X will fund studies of X). It's interestin…

Another crazy stat: 132 politicians in Mexico murdered since September.

Great point, also I would add payment processors to the list.

How I wish we could build European block housing (is this the correct term?) in this country. The buildings are shoulder to shoulder and take up the whole block. visual example: ht…

His level 4-2 vid is pretty crazy, 20 minute video about 9 seconds of gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1AHCaokqhg